"Well, in fairness, we are talking about Fox News viewers."
Which, BTW, outnumber CNN or MSNBC viewers. FNC must be doing something right by not putting a liberal spin on selective topics.
No, all that proves is that this country is rapidly reaching its "stupid people saturation point". FNC is nothing but propaganda and lies -- how many times during the Iraq war did they run a story about WMD being "found"? How many of those stories turned out to be true?
FNC is for stupid people who think only in terms of good and bad or black and white, plain and simple.
In my experience sysadmins tend to know much about a certain OS, and will proclaim it to be the best no matter what the benchmarking results are. They may have knowledge about the OS, but rarely have any depth knowledge of the actual hardware performance.
And, unless you're suggesting developers are more likely to possess this knowledge than sysadmins -- something which makes no logical sense -- you've really not answered the question.
I don't want or need to reboot multiple times to play multiple games. In fact, nobody does, which is why games and applications will never be distributed as bootable Linux-based CD ROMs.
I predict 12 months before bootable Linux CDs become a completely standard model for games and application distribution
I predict the entire computer gaming and applications industry will not follow your lead. Just a hunch, but it seems slightly beyond farfetched to think that anyone who sells software for money would consider a bootable Linux CD the ideal method of application distribution. It's especially farfetched to think they'd drop everything they're doing and begin selling their products this way.
You just have to know what to buy from Sun and what not to.
If you value your warranty, this is about the stupidest thing you can do to your Sun system. Or any other system from a major manufacturer, for that matter.
Do I do this to my Sun/SGI/etc gear at home? Of course. Would I do it at work? Only if I were looking for another job.
Hey, I'm having a little trouble here remembering whose shitty code was responsible for the massive, Internet-slowing, computer-destroying, power-grid-decimating computer virus we all had to deal with last month. And then again two weeks later.
Could you refresh me? Was it Microsoft, or sendmail?
This is why things I like to call "more thought-out" operating systems (Solaris, AIX, IRIX, etc) allow for a separate raw partition simply to write out system dumps for later analysis, safe from the dangers of filesystem corruption. You don't know how useful these tools are until you've had to use them.
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Not everyone who watches Fox News is a conservative zealot.
This is true. I know some people who watch it purely for the unintentional humor value.
And not every conservative zealot watches Fox News.
Yes, some of them read the Washington Times or Newsmax instead, or prefer their Ann Coulter books to television news.
It just drives me crazy when people are pigeonholed as being a moron based on one simple aspect of personal preference.
Unfortunately, in this case, it's absolutely true.
- A.P.
"Well, in fairness, we are talking about Fox News viewers."
Which, BTW, outnumber CNN or MSNBC viewers. FNC must be doing something right by not putting a liberal spin on selective topics.
No, all that proves is that this country is rapidly reaching its "stupid people saturation point". FNC is nothing but propaganda and lies -- how many times during the Iraq war did they run a story about WMD being "found"? How many of those stories turned out to be true?
FNC is for stupid people who think only in terms of good and bad or black and white, plain and simple.
- A.P.
People are catching on.
- A.P.
You must've spent all weekend on that one, and just been happy as hell they posted a SCO story on Monday.
- A.P.
I've destroyed LG CD-Roms by simply looking at them the wrong way. This has got to be a distant second.
- A.P.
So... to answer your question -- avoid West Texas at all costs.
I shortcut that advice by avoiding all of Texas as a general rule.
- A.P.
Your ignorance is blindingly obvious.
Please read the article before making a fool of yourself next time.
- A.P.
In my experience sysadmins tend to know much about a certain OS, and will proclaim it to be the best no matter what the benchmarking results are. They may have knowledge about the OS, but rarely have any depth knowledge of the actual hardware performance.
And, unless you're suggesting developers are more likely to possess this knowledge than sysadmins -- something which makes no logical sense -- you've really not answered the question.
- A.P.
...who the hell still runs Solaris x86?
It's like Windows NT for Alpha... there's no point.
- A.P.
Paul Vixie releasing untested, buggy software?
You're kidding!
- A.P.
i think IBM is using PPC970 (aka G5) as server cpu too, isn't?
Bzzt. The POWER4/POWER4+ is most certainly not the same as the G5. Consider the G5 the stripped-down, workstation version of the POWER4.
- A.P.
You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her [hope-2000.org]!
You're new here, aren't you?
- A.P.
I don't want or need to reboot multiple times to play multiple games. In fact, nobody does.
Sure they do. We call them "console owners", and their systems even power cycle each time they switch games.
Yes, but they also take 5 seconds to reboot. A PC takes anywhere from a minute to "go make yourself an omelette".
- A.P.
I don't want or need to reboot multiple times to play multiple games. In fact, nobody does, which is why games and applications will never be distributed as bootable Linux-based CD ROMs.
- A.P.
I predict 12 months before bootable Linux CDs become a completely standard model for games and application distribution
I predict the entire computer gaming and applications industry will not follow your lead. Just a hunch, but it seems slightly beyond farfetched to think that anyone who sells software for money would consider a bootable Linux CD the ideal method of application distribution. It's especially farfetched to think they'd drop everything they're doing and begin selling their products this way.
- A.P.
Yeah. I'll be able to play TONS of games on a BARE CPU.
- A.P.
You just have to know what to buy from Sun and what not to.
If you value your warranty, this is about the stupidest thing you can do to your Sun system. Or any other system from a major manufacturer, for that matter.
Do I do this to my Sun/SGI/etc gear at home? Of course. Would I do it at work? Only if I were looking for another job.
- A.P.
You spent 24 hours trying to win $100?
Dude, you could make more than that working at Wendy's.
- A.P.
Hey, I'm having a little trouble here remembering whose shitty code was responsible for the massive, Internet-slowing, computer-destroying, power-grid-decimating computer virus we all had to deal with last month. And then again two weeks later.
Could you refresh me? Was it Microsoft, or sendmail?
- A.P.
This is why things I like to call "more thought-out" operating systems (Solaris, AIX, IRIX, etc) allow for a separate raw partition simply to write out system dumps for later analysis, safe from the dangers of filesystem corruption. You don't know how useful these tools are until you've had to use them.
- A.P.
You can "cluster" MySQL? Does it involve "rsync" and "cron"?
- A.P.
Yeah, it was Ronald Ann, or Ronalda, or whatever her name was. Her parents, so the story goes, named her after Ronald Reagan... mixed-up parents.
- A.P.
Actually, he just stole the hubcaps off the thing.
- A.P.
That's how I got my SGI Octane. Except I was wearing my normal work clothes and I didn't need to wheel it out.
- A.P.
I'd say the first is awfully obscure, seeing as how I've used Linux now for nine years and have yet to find a system which actually uses it.
And sendmail? Hardly a linux-specific application, wouldn't you say? Besides, most Linux distros no longer use it.
- A.P.